Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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24/05/21 - The NI Protocol, gaps in hedgrows and buying local food
Problems with the NI protocol.
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22/05/21 Farming Today This Week: Australia tariff-free trade deal, peat action plan, access to the countryside
Farmers talk of a "betrayal" by the government on a tariff-free trade deal with Australia.
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21/05/21 - The challenges of autonomous robots, Nigel Owens takes on a farm and managing people in nature
The social, legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of robots on the farm.
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20/05/21 - Australian trade deal, dogs disturbing nesting birds and bee corridors
Are we about to sign a no-tariff trade deal with Australia?
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19/05/21 - Lowland peat re-wetting, phasing out peat for horticulture and land rights.
Can we grow food in re-wetted lowland peat?
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18/05/21 - Visitors to the countryside, seasonal workers and measuring how happy a cow is
How are farmers coping with the pressure of more visitors to beauty spots?
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17/05/21 Seasonal workers, access to national parks, counting shad
How the new immigration policy could leave Britain's food supply-chain at risk.
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15/05/21 - Farming Today This Week: Action Plan for Animal Welfare. ELMS trials, tackling rural loneliness
We scrutinise the government's new "Action Plan for Animal Welfare".
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14/05/21 Tackling rural isolation, tax relief for on farm research, vertical farming, flytipping
North Yorkshire young farmers have been drafted in to help tackle rural loneliness.
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13/05/21 - ELMS trial, a "new deal" for farming and a smart village
We visit an ELMS trial looking at what 'public goods' are worth.
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12/05/21 - Government plans for Animal Welfare, AHDB Strategic Farms, and 'nature based solutions'.
The government is launching a new action plan for animal welfare.
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11/05/21 Northern Ireland climate bill; Hedgerows; Drought resistant forage
Politicians in Northern Ireland debate climate bill; Hedgerows; Field trials of forage.
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10/05/21 - Virtual health checks, livestock marts reopening and on-farm trials
Livestock markets are beginning to cautiously open up after lockdown.
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08/05/21 Farming Today This Week
The UK potato mountain, the EU’s latest move on gene editing, and a weeding robot.
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07/05/21 - Potato mountains, vintage farm machinery and farming emus
Why more than 20% of last year’s potato crop is still in storage on farms.
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06/05/21 - Deer culling in lockdown, gene editing in the EU and DIY farm machinery
What next for the UK deer population after culling was hit by lockdown?
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05/05/21 - Farm jobs for the unemployed, a green recovery and robot tractors
We get more details about a scheme to match up unemployed people with jobs on farms.
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04/05/21 Future farm machinery, robotic weeder, food innovation award
The robotic weeder who may be destined to be at the top of every farmer’s Christmas list.
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales
Mariclare Carey-Jones visits the onsite farm at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
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01/05/21 - The rural vote, imports and exports and a Lincolnshire pub crawl
How role with the rural vote play in the May 6th elections?
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30/04/21 Plant clocks, local elections, peat bogs
How tapping into plants' daily rhythms could make farming more sustainable.
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29/04/21 - Imports from the EU, a global farm sustainability metric and the Scottish election
Calls for a level playing field across checks on imports and exports from the EU.
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28/04/21 - Food exports post Brexit, Welsh election, land use to save the planet
UK food and drink exports to the EU in February were 40% down on last year.
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27/04/21: Review into Northern Ireland's food and farming, local council elections, strawberries in heated tunnels
Sir Peter Kendall heads up a new review into Northern Ireland's food and farming.
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26/04/21 - Growing hemp for CBD in the UK, BBC FAFA Awards and a professional pub lover...
Pressure on the Government to legalise growing hemp for CBD on British farms.
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24/04/21 Salmon exports, soil, social media hoof trimming
We dig deep, talk fishy statistics and chat with the latest TikTok sensation.
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23/04/21 - Salmon export figures, naturally GM crops, dung beetles, TikTok hoof trimmer
Scottish salmon producers dispute government export figures for January.
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22/04/21 - Building in AONBs, a dry and cold April, worm farms and fishing safety
Are England’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty are under threat?
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21/04/21 - Bivalve mollusc exports, silvopasture and Labour's Rural Review
The latest twists and turns in the story of bivalve mollusc exports to the EU.
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20/04/21 - Pick for Britain ends, Carbon storage
The end of the Pick for Britain campaign.